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If you ever want to see how they think, just check out the myriad UFO subreddits. It's pretty wild.

Everything is aliens and a government cover up to those folks....even when you prove it's a floating trash bag they think you're a fool. There are a few rational commenters, but a lot of people that want to believe so bad they fall for all these grifters selling pseudoscience books and seminars.

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> Everything is aliens and a government cover up to those folks....even when you prove it's a floating trash bag they think you're a fool.

That's a pretty annoying sampling bias and doesn't reflect the community as a whole. There's plenty of rational voices that think most things are just balloons and drones, but they don't comment when it's boring and mundane. In those cases, only schizo voices remain.

Maybe. Pull up any one of hundreds of threads. Read through hundreds of comments and you'll have one or two people respond rationally and the rest is all folks saying that the aliens are harvesting our souls or something else equally insane like remote viewing. It just seems pretty lopsided to me, but yeah...maybe they're just a lot more vocal.

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